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How is this at all relevant? Publishing in one app store does not prevent you from publishing in the opposing one. Services like 500px no doubt have both Andro

How is this at all relevant? Publishing in one app store does not prevent you from publishing in the opposing one. Services like 500px no doubt have both Android and iOS apps, and they will continue to do so as long as their customers (and potential customers) carry these devices in their pockets. So long as hundreds of millions of people carry iOS devices, people will publish apps in the App Store in droves, regardless of how draconian Apple's rules are. This is entirely independent of how many other people use Android. Previous poster is entirely correct, the power to enact change here is entirely at the hands of customers who buy Apple products. Developers have no leverage here, because everyone knows that so long as Apple keeps shipping tens of millions of tablets and phones every quarter, to wealthy people with high disposable income, devs will stay.

gbog 14y ago
1. 500px ditched from Apple store 2. "Nice, more people will go away from Apple store" 3. "Developpers go where user go (and pay)" (ie iOS) 4. me: "user go Android". 5. you: "How is this at all relevant? do both" Well, sure you can do both, but I was replying to the "user go Apple" claim above, so it is relevant, or? There is a reality mismatch with Apple: they do nice tools, but the fact we hear about them a lot and almost all movies, screenshot, etc. seem to show only Apple products, do not mean that most users actually use Apple systems or products (except if "most users" means "most startup entrepreneurs and wealthy folks in SV") The reality is, to be clear, that all but a tiny not representative fraction of laptops and desktops are running a version of Windows, and almost all but a small fraction of smartphones run a variant of Android. I avoid Windows and I am not particularly found of Android, but I think not going Android is suicidal for devs, except if they do special elite or niche apps. I did not invent this myself, Fred Wilson said the same many time.

gbog 14y ago

1. 500px ditched from Apple store 2. "Nice, more people will go away from Apple store" 3. "Developpers go where user go (and pay)" (ie iOS) 4. me: "user go Android". 5. you: "How is this at all relevant? do both" Well, sure you can do both, but I was replying to the "user go Apple" claim above, so it is relevant, or? There is a reality mismatch with Apple: they do nice tools, but the fact we hear about them a lot and almost all movies, screenshot, etc. seem to show only Apple products, do not mean that most users actually use Apple systems or products (except if "most users" means "most startup entrepreneurs and wealthy folks in SV") The reality is, to be clear, that all but a tiny not representative fraction of laptops and desktops are running a version of Windows, and almost all but a small fraction of smartphones run a variant of Android. I avoid Windows and I am not particularly found of Android, but I think not going Android is suicidal for devs, except if they do special elite or niche apps. I did not invent this myself, Fred Wilson said the same many time.